Were the intervening causes ones people would expect or were they so unusual ( superseding causes ) as to break the chain of causation?

His break as a filmmaker came with Once Were Warriors ( 1994 ), a gritty depiction of urban Māori life that was phenomenally successful in New Zealand.

His son was born in August 1920 and in 1924 Milne produced a collection of children's poems When We Were Very Young, which were illustrated by Punch staff cartoonist E. H. Shepard.

For the remainder of the decade, none of her solo efforts – even " In the Good Old Days ( When Times Were Bad )", which later became a standard – were as successful as her duets with Wagoner.

The character and themes from the comic strip Little Nemo were used in a song " Scenes from a Night's Dream " written by Phil Collins and Tony Banks of the progressive rock group Genesis on their 1978 recording, ... And Then There Were Three ... Another progressive rock group, from Germany, called Scara Brae also recorded a musical impression of the comic on their rare self titled disc from 1981 ( the track was actually recorded 2 years earlier ).

Were the women's, and my, memories true or were they just stories?

With albums such as Wish You Were Here ( 1975 ), an ode to former band member Syd Barrett and screed against the music business and Animals ( 1977 ), a concept album based on Animal Farm by George Orwell, they were firmly in the realm of symphonic prog.

The performances on the Way We Were tour were recorded and were released on CD and DVD in 2005.

Were they " normal ", or were they examples of psychopathology?

Singles were released in various territories for three of the album's songs, " If You Were Here ", " Things She Said " and " 747 " ( featuring the English version of " Kräm ", entitled " What It Feels Like ").

He was haunted to the end by bitter regrets and by painful memories of the battle at which he lost everything ; Napoleon's last words, addressed to Dr. Henri Conneau standing by his deathbed, reportedly were, " Were you at Sedan?

Fires Were Started, Listen to Britain, Coastal Command and Western Approaches were all filmed there during this period.

Others who were influenced by Norman include American CCM musician Steve Camp, who co-wrote " If I Were a Singer " with Norman, which appeared on Camp's 1978 debut album, Sayin ' It with Love, who describes Norman as his mentor, and with whom he lived for several months learning the craft of songwriting ; Canadian CCM musician Carolyn Arends.

* Were the recounts, as they were being conducted, constitutional?

* Several scenes in Sydney Pollack's 1973 film The Way We Were were filmed on Ballston Spa's Front Street.

Were it not for this late push, The Last Emperor would have joined The English Patient, Amadeus and The Hurt Locker as the only Best Picture winners to not enter the weekend box office top 5 since these numbers were first recorded in 1982.

Among films she edited were Mutiny on the Bounty ( 1935, for which she was nominated for an Academy Award ), The Way We Were ( 1973 ), and The Goodbye Girl ( 1977 ).

These were later lampooned by Angus Deayton in his TV show Before They Were Famous.

There seems to be no measure, no principle, no cry, to influence men's minds and determine elections ; it is simply, " Were you, or were you not?

One single from the album, " Who Will Save Your Soul ", peaked at number eleven on the Billboard Hot 100 ; two others, " You Were Meant for Me " and " Foolish Games ", reached number two and seven respectively on the Hot 100, and were listed on Billboards 1997 year-end singles chart.

He longs for simpler times when people sharing his viewpoint were in charge, as evidenced by the nostalgic theme song " Those Were the Days ," the show's original title.

Early recordings were produced by Paul McCartney, including the Lennon-McCartney original " Goodbye " and her hit recording of " Those Were the Days ".

As one of 40 + reviewed television pilots from a pool of thousands available pilots, clips of Acting Sheriff were used by The Best TV Shows That Never Were show to insinuate that it was one of the worst aired pilots.

), thus only 5 cartoons in the post-July 1948 package would be reissued in this manner: these were Daffy Dilly, The Foghorn Leghorn, Kit for Cat, Scaredy Cat, and You Were Never Duckier.

" Were it not you ken Mr Dean extraordinarily well ," writes Sir L. Jenkins to J. Williamson in 1672, " it were impossible to imagine how assiduous and drudging he is about his press.

A number of tracks were recorded, namely, " It Isn ’ t There ", " Wish It Were Saturday Night ", " I ’ ll Give You Three Guesses ", " All Week Long " and " Congratulations, You ’ ve Hurt Me Again ".

" Following the success of his first two hits, he found it hard to maintain an identity, as most of his songs were later covered by other Motown artists, most prominently " Everybody Needs Love ," a hit when covered by Gladys Knight & The Pips, " Maria ( You Were The Only One )," a hit for Michael Jackson and " If You Let Me ," a minor hit for Eddie Kendricks.

Were any of us interested enough in the idea to do it for her, by proxy so to speak??

Were any railways in Niger to interconnect with railways of adjacent countries, choosing the best gauge will be tricky.

Were the offence considered only under this point of view, it would not be easy to assign any good reasons to justify the rigour of the laws.

Were it a difficulty of any other kind, I might say, Look back at every action of my life, ask every friend I have.

Were there any unintended side effects?

Were such a machine to work successfully, its operation would violate the second law of thermodynamics, one form of which states: " It is impossible for any device that operates on a cycle to receive heat from a single reservoir and produce a net amount of work.

On May 4, 2004 Eugene Bird appeared on Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's (" CBC ") National News and commented "" We know that the Israeli intelligence was operating in Baghdad after the war was over ... The question should be: Were there any foreign interrogators among those that were recommending very, very bad treatment for the prisoners?

Were CSA to be broken, encrypted DVB transmissions would be decipherable, regardless of any proprietary conditional access ( CA ) system used.

While more consistent with resource depletion theory ( RDT ) than with the confluence model, these findings also cast doubt upon the claim that RDT is the sole cause of any correlation that in fact exists: Were RDT the exclusive explanation, only children would have an advantage over firstborns ( given that siblings divert at least some resources from both " true " and " functional " firstborns regardless of age difference ).

Thomas Jefferson said he considered the free press as even more important than the government itself: " Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate any moment to prefer the latter.

Were they any smaller, they would be deemed by HM Revenue and Customs to be portable, with the implicit capacity for illegal production.

Were there any more?

He co-wrote the screenplay for While You Were Sleeping ( 1995 ) with Daniel G. Sullivan, but while it was acclaimed by many it did not receive any awards.

Were any successions of the House of Nassau outside Luxembourg to need to be adjudicated afterwards, it is unclear what the pact would provide — whether a line identical with that of modern Luxembourg's, or different.

He never received permission to use any of Arthur Meschian ’ s work ( including the song " Where Were You, God?

Were it not for the intensity of Anthony and Gloria's fall we would not find ourselves sufficiently discouraged from complacency, and moral laxity as for the novel to have any great effect ; were it not for the all-encompassing despondency — the sheer breadth of depravity exposed in the novel — we would not be able to comprehend the extent to which a society may be steeped in such a transparent vice.

: Were petitioner to satisfy the dissent's ‘ probable innocence ’ standard … the District Court would presumably be required to grant a conditional order of relief, which would in effect require the State to retry petitioner 10 years after his first trial, not because of any constitutional violation which had occurred at the first trial, but simply because of a belief that in light of petitioner's new-found evidence a jury might find him not guilty at a second trial.

Were my parents born in any foreign country?